Elected Officials JoinAmerica’s Top Medical Bloggers to Discuss the Real,

Clinical Impact of Health Care Reform

WHAT: As the health care debate heats up on the Hill, join Representative Paul Ryan as he sits down with top medical bloggers from across the country to discuss health care reform and its impact on practicing clinicians. This keynote discussion will be followed by two panels of physician and nurse bloggers who will highlight the importance of putting patients first. Topics covered will include key barriers to health care quality, affordability, and access as well as the potential pitfalls of a new public plan and ways to fix the current system without investing billions in a new one.

Just to be clear – the intent of the press conference was to give medical bloggers an opportunity to speak directly to politicians inside the beltway about their healthcare reform concerns. I invited medbloggers who have been the most outspoken about reform, and who have the largest reach – but sadly I couldn’t include as many people as I’d like due to budget constraints, etc.

The conference needed a name – so as I thought about what medbloggers really wanted to communicate, it seemed to me that we cared most about putting our patients first, and that this message often got lost in the “who’s going to pay” arguments.

The spirit of the conference is about expressing the need to preserve the patients’ right to choose (along with their providers’ advice and input) the best path for their care. It was never my intention to exclude patients from the conference in any way – patients and physicians/nurses are each others best allies, and we need to stick together!

Just to be clear – the intent of the press conference was to give medical bloggers an opportunity to speak directly to politicians inside the beltway about their healthcare reform concerns. I invited medbloggers who have been the most outspoken about reform, and who have the largest reach – but sadly I couldn’t include as many people as I’d like due to budget constraints, etc.

The conference needed a name – so as I thought about what medbloggers really wanted to communicate, it seemed to me that we cared most about putting our patients first, and that this message often got lost in the “who’s going to pay” arguments.

The spirit of the conference is about expressing the need to preserve the patients’ right to choose (along with their providers’ advice and input) the best path for their care. It was never my intention to exclude patients from the conference in any way – patients and physicians/nurses are each others best allies, and we need to stick together!

How about Globalize the US medical and Healthcare System! Most of the technical jobs are moved offshore so what is wrong with the Globalize Medical System. American medical services are too over priced and US lawyers use that as a money making machine. So we need an open competition and let user decide.

Healthcare reform, in its form today, is more about Socialist Democrat “Command and Control” than it is about helping the uninsured or under insured. The proof of that is Nancy Pelosi being able to brag that she already has the votes to pass a healthcare reform bill, yet those voters don’t know what the final version of the bill will be like.Regards,Billhttp://theconservativenation.com

Healthcare reform, in its form today, is more about Socialist Democrat “Command and Control” than it is about helping the uninsured or under insured. The proof of that is Nancy Pelosi being able to brag that she already has the votes to pass a healthcare reform bill, yet those voters don’t know what the final version of the bill will be like.Regards,Billhttp://theconservativenation.com

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